Lego House
March 15th 2010 07:55
I've just been watching, James May, off Top Gear building a Lego house - full size and
walkable around in. Quite amazing. It's part of a series in which he's taken some toy he enjoyed as a child and made it full size. There have been some great episodes.
Regrettably the house couldn't be moved safely and it was destroyed. As someone said, Isn't that the point of Lego?
Probably May would have been better off with wooden or metal buildings but that wouldn't have been half as much fun, of course. Still, it was quite an achievement, and the details inside the house were as much fun as the building itself: a working toilet (with a little Lego poo), a Lego cat, slippers, chairs, bed (the most uncomfortable in England), and miles more.
The interesting thing is that Lego is still so popular in these days of computers, and Wiis and all sorts of interactive games. At one point May visited the Lego factory, where robots are endlessly pressing out new pieces of the stuff. Millions a day it seems. As he asked, where does it all go? A good question....
There may be more Lego pieces now in the world than people....
Regrettably the house couldn't be moved safely and it was destroyed. As someone said, Isn't that the point of Lego?
Probably May would have been better off with wooden or metal buildings but that wouldn't have been half as much fun, of course. Still, it was quite an achievement, and the details inside the house were as much fun as the building itself: a working toilet (with a little Lego poo), a Lego cat, slippers, chairs, bed (the most uncomfortable in England), and miles more.
The interesting thing is that Lego is still so popular in these days of computers, and Wiis and all sorts of interactive games. At one point May visited the Lego factory, where robots are endlessly pressing out new pieces of the stuff. Millions a day it seems. As he asked, where does it all go? A good question....
There may be more Lego pieces now in the world than people....
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